Download e-book for kindle: Angel Creek: Where the River Meets the Sea: A Memoir by Gail Porter Mandell

This memoir, with a quick prologue and twenty-eight chapters, specializes in everyday life in Angel Creek, a middle of black Garifuna tradition, at twice greater than 40 years aside. The manuscript will seem to readers of every age who search real tales approximately shared human values and the hunt for which means in unaccustomed settings.

The final three-quarters of the 20th Century most likely had extra life-changing occasions than all earlier background. Austin Goodrich displays at the function he performed in using this heritage to a profitable end within the curiosity of all he believed in. From a quiet road in a quiet middle-class midwestern urban, Austin was once thrown into the cauldron of worldwide battle II as an infantry guy identified within the outdated days as a gravel-clutcher.

Twenty-one humans of alternative a while have something in universal; they’re inside six months in their deaths. They’ve persevered the conflict of the scientific approach as they sought remedies for his or her health problems, and are actually settling in to die. a few reconcile, a few don’t. a few are gracious, a few no longer. As Nina Angela McKissock, a hugely skilled hospice nurse, is going from domestic to domestic and in the residential hospice, she stocks her trip of deep pleasure, funny occasions, priceless tales, and heartbreaking love.

In stick with My Footsteps, Sara Safari and Jeffrey Kottler recount the exciting story of Sara’s climb to the head of Mount Everest for a reason: bringing expertise to the plight of marginalized ladies and sufferers of kid intercourse trafficking worldwide. As a tender lady in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, Sara skilled firsthand the oppressive, restrictive atmosphere that permits the sex-trafficking exchange to thrive.

Betty is exhausted, stressed, and apprehensive. She has no notion how lengthy she has been misplaced and wandering--now that she has ultimately controlled to flee. yet the place is she now, and extra importantly, how can she locate anyone to aid her come again domestic? After eventually evading her captor who has emotionally tortured her months on finish, Betty seeks support from a guy unknown to her, yet famous and well-loved by way of the strangers round her.